Well
It's been a while since I last updated this blog and the reason is fairly simple: there simply isn't anything tech-related that already hasn't been discussed to death by plenty of other people. It gets boring fast and it doesn't help that the revival of both my Fujitsu “T-Bird” and Fujitsu “Cordant” have been paused due to work and my other hobby – currently a mixture of lepidopterology and odonatology – having started to consume more time due to getting closer to the first “cut”. 2026 will mark the fifth year of my amateur studies and thus provide an ideal dataset for some analysis and appropriate maps (which, for the time being, I cannot make public in its entireties and not just because I only got a handful of basemaps done whilst getting familiar with QGIS).
I could talk about the bizarre PowerPoint presentations my friend sent me a few days ago which put BOKU (“University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences”, Vienna) in such a bad light that this institution should be banned immediately for spreading easy-to-debunk bullshit. I could also talk about the growing trend of “Etsy girls” reviving and popularizing the illegal trade of endangered insects for a pathetic “aesthetic”. Both are equally worrisome, yet only the latter touches on the aspect of niche social media cultures causing dire consequences in some of the poorest corners in the world for some cheap clout, leeching off the – and I'm not gonna bite my tongue here – stupidity of the average social media user doomscrolling their lives away out of sheer boredom.
Writing is a tiring process and due to my tendency to talk about stuff that already is draining in itself, it just gives me unnecessary headaches and ultimately wastes my limited time.
This blog will remain dedicated to tech and, to a lesser degree, online cultures but will be updated much less than my Gemini capsule, where I kind of found my home to vent into an actual void and discuss stuff that may or may not get me into some avoidable legal trouble with petty academics (and other easily offended people). But even my capsule will see less activity, except for my sub-capsule dedicated to my ecological observations. Those currently are being prioritized.